Two Weeks & one day....

Well the time has come for me to pack my tools & clothes...purchased my ticket to Turkey today for my class in Istanbul...you can still join me if you like...click here for more information...

Between going to a Concert last week to see Def Leppard, Poison & Cheap Trick & the very nice mini vacation we took to Santa Rosa, Wine Country's cutest town over the holiday weekend, I have had no time to do anything but get ready for Graceful Customs to open on Sept 20th & my class in Turkey...

so no beads, well there are a few, I will try & list them in the shop by Thursday night...currently there are 19 beads or bead sets in the shop as well...as I will put the shop on vacation/in this case work/mode, while I am in Turkey, all orders made by September 18th will be shipped before I go...I will blog still, have photos of yummy beads & even have bead giveaways during that time...

Speaking of bead giveaways...The yummy focal from last week goes to Nancy, please send your address...for this week I am giving away the very yummy fish Named Rose above...enter to win it by making comment on this post...

The very yummy Necklace above is made by one of my great client/artist friends with my Lava Pools bead, Lee has a great eye & I love how she plays with my beads...

I also had a blog post this week on Watch Me Create...There is so much good information on that site...I loves it...

I hope your labor day weekend was good too & your life is fun & well maybe not as busy of mine...thanks for stopping by...life is good...

Jelveh

Peace

I made beads at Amy's...

This past Thursday I met up with the lovely artist bead shop owner Amy Surman at her shop in Oxford...I have just found out about her by way of one of my new clients who is taken jewelry classes from Amy at her shop...one of the nicest, most creative, hardest working people I have met, she is not only the shop owner, the jewelry teacher, a new glass bead maker, but an amazing Silver artist as well...I have traded & purchased some of her silver work which I will share with you when I take some photos...

She has been so kind to let me play on her torch in her studio, I started on Thursday, I came back on Sunday & met her lovely & also very creative sisters, we played on the torch for a while, then I was there again today, we played some more...I had such a good time, she even bought my kiln, since it would not have worked in America, this one I had got just to use with the UK power...above are some of the beads I made while visiting, they are not for sale...and a photo of the front of her shop, Amy is the one on the left...the place is amazing...I am going back to pick up some beads I made for me & to take more photos later this week...

Amy & her sisters, Kay & Lucy, were so kind to me, they fed me & hubby on Sunday as well...just a very kind cool creative group of people that I am so glad to have met & will be friends with for a long time to come...

Jelveh

Peace